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Lean Product Management

By : Mangalam Nandakumar
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Lean Product Management

By: Mangalam Nandakumar

Overview of this book

Lean Product Management is about finding the smartest way to build an Impact Driven Product that can deliver value to customers and meet business outcomes when operating under internal and external constraints. Author, Mangalam Nandakumar, is a product management expert, with over 17 years of experience in the field. Businesses today are competing to innovate. Cost is no longer the constraint, execution is. It is essential for any business to harness whatever competitive advantage they can, and it is absolutely vital to deliver the best customer experience possible. The opportunities for creating impact are there, but product managers have to improvise on their strategy every day in order to capitalize on them. This is the Agile battleground, where you need to stay Lean and be able to respond to abstract feedback from an ever shifting market. This is where Lean Product Management will help you thrive. Lean Product Management is an essential guide for product managers, and to anyone embarking on a new product development. Mangalam Nandakumar will help you to align your product strategy with business outcomes and customer impact. She introduces the concept of investing in Key Business Outcomes as part of the product strategy in order to provide an objective metric about which product idea and strategy to pursue. You will learn how to create impactful end-to-end product experiences by engaging stakeholders and reacting to external feedback.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Lean Product Management
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
Index

Tenets of lean software development


"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."-- Jim Rohn

Mary and Tom Poppendieck, in their book, Lean Software Development, lay out a finely compiled guide of the lean principles that can be applied to software development. They rightly caution against the misapplication of manufacturing and civil engineering practices to software development:

"Software development has tried to model its practices after manufacturing and civil engineering, with decidedly mixed results. This has been due in part to a naive understanding of the true nature of these disciplines and a failure to recognize the limits of the metaphor."

As the authors have pointed out in the book, it is this failure to recognize the limits of the metaphor that is prevalent in product teams. The mindset of thinking that software development is akin to manufacturing/production has a huge implication on how teams perceive software practices. We place...